Cleantech & EV’s

TV personality Simon Cowell is apparently considering taking legal action against an electric motorbike (not ebike) manufacturer after suffering serious injuries in a crash. The electric motorbike Cowell was riding is known as a Swind EB-01. Much of the media has misreported the story by describing the Swind EB-01 as an electric bicycle. In fact, the bike’s performance puts it into a very…

Over the last few years I’ve had the pleasure of throwing my leg over hundreds of electric bicycles. And with the skyrocketing popularity of e-bikes this year, 2020 saw me doing more electric bicycle reviews than ever before. With so many unique advantages among the many different bikes, I’ve chosen my favorite models from several different categories of e-bikes below. Commuter electric…

Electrek has learned that Tesla is now offering one year of free Supercharging to incentivize deliveries by the end of the year as it attempts another record quarter. Yesterday, we reported on Elon Musk writing in an email to employees that Tesla is seeing strong demand but the automaker needs to increase production fast in order to deliver on expectations. As we previously reported, Tesla is…

VW has unveiled a new 22 kW bi-directional DC charging station for electric vehicles that sort of closes the gap between level 2 charging and level 3 DC fast-charging. Typically, we refer to charging electric vehicles with 3 different levels. Level 1 or trickle charging consists of plugging into a 120-volt regular wall outlet, which provides very limited charging that can literally take days to…